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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/openssh/ssh-keygen.1')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/openssh/ssh-keygen.1 b/crypto/openssh/ssh-keygen.1 index 37a4fc2..ce2213c 100644 --- a/crypto/openssh/ssh-keygen.1 +++ b/crypto/openssh/ssh-keygen.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.130 2016/02/17 07:38:19 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.133 2016/06/16 06:10:45 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: February 17 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 16 2016 $ .Dt SSH-KEYGEN 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ There is no way to recover a lost passphrase. If the passphrase is lost or forgotten, a new key must be generated and the corresponding public key copied to other machines. .Pp -For RSA1 keys, +For RSA1 keys and keys stored in the newer OpenSSH format, there is also a comment field in the key file that is only for convenience to the user to help identify the key. The comment can tell what the key is for, or whatever is useful. @@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ flag will be ignored. Provides a new comment. .It Fl c Requests changing the comment in the private and public key files. -This operation is only supported for RSA1 keys. +This operation is only supported for RSA1 keys and keys stored in the +newer OpenSSH format. The program will prompt for the file containing the private keys, for the passphrase if the key has one, and for the new comment. .It Fl D Ar pkcs11 @@ -389,7 +390,8 @@ For RSA and DSA keys tries to find the matching public key file and prints its fingerprint. If combined with .Fl v , -an ASCII art representation of the key is supplied with the fingerprint. +a visual ASCII art representation of the key is supplied with the +fingerprint. .It Fl M Ar memory Specify the amount of memory to use (in megabytes) when generating candidate moduli for DH-GEX. |